How we got here

Speed, ignorance, and power. Or why no one bothers to read the bill.

"Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich offered lessons from past presidents on pushing health reform. “First, move very fast. . . The honeymoon will be over and the gravitational pull of the midterm elections will be too great. Second, leave the details to Congress … up to a point. And override your economic advisers. Every time health reform has come up, they have always been skeptical or said no.” at the American Hospital Association Summit in San Francisco last week." AHA Vantage Point

Well, I guess there's hope, if we can just slow them down until the midterm elections, even then we're just nibbling around the edges. Until Obama, no President had spent more on social programs than George Bush. Obama makes him look like a beginner in throwing money around.